Mommy's Thoughts about you starting Preschool:
Waking up the morning of your first day of school was filled with excitement and a lot of butterflies. I knew as your Mommy, I'd be a little nervous but I didn't expect the first day jitters I had. They were worse than the first day of school for me my very 1st year as a teacher! I wasn't nervous because I thought that you wouldn't behave or even that I didn't think you were ready for this step... I guess the only way I can explain my nerves is, that this was going to be your very first school experience. For the next 19 years you will go to school and this was going to be your very first reference to 'school'. I am nervous because I want you to LOVE it. I want you LOVE your teachers and I especially want for you to build a solid foundation for the rest of your school career. :-) Having had such a wonderful experience with Ms. Connie, I also knew that today would be very different for you when you left my side, as you've done so many times.
We were so blessed to have you go to Ms. Connie! It was like having another Mommy when we couldn't be with you. She didn't run her home like a preschool or daycare while you were there, she ran it like a home. We were so very glad you had that environment to enjoy. It makes going to school something very different with different expectations for you as you begin your life as a student. I am glad for this difference because it should hopefully allow you to see that school is something new...Something that comes with responsibilities...
I want you to know that you have be prepared to learn each school day. You have to be clean, dressed, fed and well slept. You'll need to remember things like your backpack and important things inside... You'll have to walk through the doors ready and excited to learn something new each day. See... Isn't school so very important!
You woke up on your first day FULL of excitement. You had your breakfast, brushed your teeth, washed your face and got dressed and ready to go. As we were taking pictures outside in front of our house you insisted on picking flowers for your teachers. Without any prompting you wanted to make them smile! In that moment my heart smiled. You were ready to listen and do anything to please those two lovely ladies and you hadn't even spent a day with them yet. We loaded up in our car and on the way you told me that you were a little "stared" (scared). I reminded you of the dinosaurs you played with in your classroom and you perked right back up! (Mommy's butterflies began to flutter again)
Once we were at school, you were again full of excitement and ready to head in! Seeing your excitement made me know that you were going to love preschool because you were going in with the right attitude. Mommy is a teacher and I can tell you the thing I love more than any other from my students is their excitement to learn. You don't have to know the answers to every question. You don't even have to understand what your teacher is saying all of the time. BUT if you have excitement in your heart about school and learning you will naturally learn and have a lot of fun while you do!
Annabelle, we start this journey of school... It will be a long journey for you, full of ups and downs, but it will be a journey worth having. My wish for you this first year of preschool is for you to learn that school is FUN! I know that you will learn so many new things while your at school, but if you can leave my side each morning excited to have FUN at school and come back into my arms telling me that you had FUN I will be the happiest Mommy on Earth! Because it will prove you've figured out the best secret of all...
SCHOOL IS FUN!!!
(it's all in YOUR attitude)
